Thursday, September 22, 2011

Syncing Family Tree Information—Some Thoughts

Randy Seaver in his blog “Genea-Musings” offers a though-provoking post on the issue of syncing family tree information. By “syncing” we mean making a change in a family tree on one platform in one piece of software and having that change update itself in a copy of that family tree resident on another platform and created by a different piece of software.

There are some noble efforts being made to accomplish this, but as Randy observe, we are probably in the infancy of this technology.